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I have a question or two to better understand this script:

1- $str=string???
2- how dose the script compare and reads the word line?

i hope the questions are not stupid, just trying to get a...

am i correct to assume that the above script will produce a random word, as long as the words are set as follow:


word1
word2
word3
word4
etc..


K

what can be used instead of sed, as i dont know anything about sed and rather learn shell scripting first and then look at sed, also just so i can understand this better, the random word file, needs...

My problem is as follow and i hope you can help:

I currently have this function:



stored_word()
{
number=$RANDOM
let "number %= 21"
case $number in
0 ) echo "energy" ;; 1 ) echo...

when the script is run, it keeps on running on the same word over and over again, instead of taking a new one and placing it in $word. is there any way of cleaning a Variable?

Keyvan

Hello there peeps:

There is a little piece of bash shell scripting problem i have, which i was hoping you could help me with.



#!/bin/bash

stored_word()
{
case $(( $$ % 8 )) in
...

oh how silly of me... that would have been usefull... sorry guys i should have mentioned it its bin/bash.. the error is still the same.

hang: line 38: 14663 % 0 : division by 0 (error token is "...

hang: line 38: 14663 % 0 : division by 0 (error token is " ")

now its getting silly :)

K

hang: line 36: declare: `--': not a valid identifier
hang: line 38: 27142 % 0 : division by 0 (error token is " ")

now it gives this error.. i think it might be the way i have set up the word...

gives this error

hang: line 36: set: -A: invalid option
set: usage: set [--abefhkmnptuvxBCHP] [-o option] [arg ...]


K

jim,

np at all... i am trying to learn shell scripting and the only way for me to learn is to ask questions, and since i have no teachers or instructors to fall back on, then i can only use these...

Jean i cant use sed in any of my scripting.. dont ask me why but thats the harsh truth. how can the above script be changed to remove the sed section?

thx mate

K

I have two files:


First file with 10 words, as follow:

randomword1, randomword2, randomword3, randomword4, etc...

Second File shell script.

word=$(cat hangman_words | cut -d" " -f1)...

wwww wwwwwwww wwwwwwwwwwwww